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Tulip Spray with many Branches
Johannes Reist (American, 19th century)
Medium/Technique
Pen and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 32.7 x 20.5 cm (12 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.762
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1337, fig. 357 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. In vase of ornate outline stalk with tulips and curious flower with striped square, lower left and right.
Inscriptionson vase at bottom in wash: Merz 26/ Johanns/ reist/ 1829
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 1956)